Civil Rights People
A 15-year-old girl refused to give up her seat to a white male.
Who is Claudette Colvin
this early SCOTUS case made segregation LEGAL by establishing "separate but equal"
Plessy V Ferguson
A book created with certain addresses in them so that African Americans had a guide for safe travels was created by Vitor Hugo Green.
What is the Green Book
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
A Civil Rights Activist that was part of the nation of Islam. He believed in violence when it was used for protection.
Who is Malcolm X
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
What is it called to be brought together?
Integration
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
The murder of this young man in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 was a major rallying point for the Civil Rights movement inspiring people like Rosa Parks
Who was Emmett Till?
Who is Ruby Bridges
Group that formed initially to provide armed protection for blacks during civil rights rallies
What were the Black Panthers
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
He started his civil rights career as a radical muslim but softened his stance and was assassinated by the NOI
Malcom X
Supreme Court Case that made interracial marriages legal
Loving v Virginia
Laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. "Separate but equal", local of the 14t amendment
What are Jim Crow Laws
The attempt to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of 1964 is referred to as
Freedom Summer
He was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868 he died in 1963
Who is W. E. B Du Bois
Students registered to be the first African American to attend Central High School in Arkansas
Who is the Little Rock Nine
Banning the use of literacy tests, provided federal oversight of voter registration. It was signed into law by Lyndon B Johnson
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders